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Citrix UPM profiles, IE with missing registry entries and logon scripts
Hi All !
We are trying to use Internet Explorer 10 with thin clients via Citrix. When the UPM user profile is created some of the registry values aren’t being created so they cannot be given correct settings with group policy.
The issue is better described in:
http://www.conetrix.com/Blog/post/How-to-Make-Group-Policy-Work-with-Citrix-Published-Applications.aspx
Using the /AlternateShellStartup with logon script does work. However to minimize issues is it possible to invoke it only once with each user? With normal desktop you could create a silly check like below:
@echo off
if exist "%USERPROFILE%\Fix_Done" goto _nocreate
type nul> "%USERPROFILE%\Fix_Done"
start /MIN %windir%\system32\runonce.
:_nocreate
However it doesn’t seem to be possible to use environment variables with UPM profiles. Is all hope lost? Any way to invoke /AlternateShellStartup only once to create missing registry entries in UPM profiles?
We are trying to use Internet Explorer 10 with thin clients via Citrix. When the UPM user profile is created some of the registry values aren’t being created so they cannot be given correct settings with group policy.
The issue is better described in:
http://www.conetrix.com/Blog/post/How-to-Make-Group-Policy-Work-with-Citrix-Published-Applications.aspx
Using the /AlternateShellStartup with logon script does work. However to minimize issues is it possible to invoke it only once with each user? With normal desktop you could create a silly check like below:
@echo off
if exist "%USERPROFILE%\Fix_Done" goto _nocreate
type nul> "%USERPROFILE%\Fix_Done"
start /MIN %windir%\system32\runonce.
:_nocreate
However it doesn’t seem to be possible to use environment variables with UPM profiles. Is all hope lost? Any way to invoke /AlternateShellStartup only once to create missing registry entries in UPM profiles?
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Thanks for all the great suggestions!
I didn't mean that the check in the code above is the only way available. Obviously as Dkotte pointed out you can have other alternative checks.
What I meant is that if you want to ensure that /AlternateShellStartup is only invoked once, it would be inevitable to do the check in the script, whether it is the one you have scripted or whether using reg.exe or any other form of scripting. I was not arguing how to do it; I was arguing that you need to do a form of check to ensure it will not run again if it had previously.
At the end in scripting all roads will lead to Rome!!!